Edward D. Breen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont

December’s guest speaker was Edward D. Breen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DuPont, a global science company organized into five product lines: Agricultural Products, Food & Personal Care, High Performance Materials, Industrial Biotechnology, People & Process Safety and Polymers & Fibers. Raj Gupta, Chairman of Delphi Automotive, sat down with Edward Breen who discussed the importance for chief executives to create honest relationships within their companies. He focused his discussion on three important themes: openness, strategy, and politics. Dupont, founded in 1802, has over 50,000 employees and has products in more than 90 countries.